Patrick O’Brian was born in 1914 and published his first book, Caesar, when he was only fifteen. In the 1960s he began work on the idea that, over the next four decades, evolved into the twenty-novel long Aubrey–Maturin series (with an extra unfinished volume published posthumously). In 1995 he was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He died in January 2000 at the age of 85.
Si bien es reconocido mundialmente como uno de los grandes novelistas del género histórico, y especialmente marítimo, Patrick O'Brian fue, en realidad, un gran contador de historias.
Publicada por primera vez en 1976, es ésta una biografía completa, exhaustiva, pero a la vez profundamente...
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